Photography
George Platt Lynes 'Walter Rockmer', 1940
SOLD
George Platt Lynes 'Walter Rockmer', 1940
£5,000.00
George Platt Lynes American 1907-1955
Walter Rockmer, 1940
SOLD
Silver print
Studio stamp and title (verso)
23.5cm × 19cm (45cm × 38cm framed)
A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favoured abstraction.